National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee

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News & Events

Building benches to benefit the Hall

By Hammerstone School Did you know that the historic town of Seneca Falls, NY is just up the road from Hammerstone? This is where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held, an effort which ultimately led to the winning of women’s suffrage. While women have gained...

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CONFLUENCE: 1844 meets 2017

By Betty M. Bayer on June 26, 2017, Finger Lakes Times Confluence: a word concerned with things — places, people, ideas — flowing together may be the most apt word to describe the National Women’s Hall of Fame’s rehabilitation of the 1844 Seneca Knitting Mill as its...

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Walls coming down at former Seneca Knitting Mill

By David L. Shaw on May 29, 2017, Finger Lakes Times SENECA FALLS — Demolition of former Seneca Knitting Mill structures on both sides of the limestone building that will be the new home of the National Women’s Hall of Fame is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday. Crews from...

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